Story Title: Detective Scooby-Doo and the Cesis Murder Mystery!
Story By: The Veronicas Music Is My Life
Disclaimer: I own only own my OC's, the fictional story and the festival. At least I never heard of such a festival before.
The words: The bolded words in () are Author Notes;
English; Japanese; 'Thoughts';' Latvian';
Thoughts are done in their native language
Summary: When on another vacation, the gang meets a group of 3 kids from another country, who happens to be the famous Japanese High School detective – Kudo Shinichi, his childhood friend, Mouri Ran and the countries own detective, Karin Johansson, as they stumble upon a mystery that is taking turns way above norms both sides can imagine. Can Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, Velma, Ran, Shinichi and Karin solve this before it is too late?
Chapter 4:
The Wild Animal Appears
So the group finally reaches the main area where the festival of colors will be taking place. To find something about the Wild Animal, they split up in these following groups: Fred and Velma, Shinichi and Karin, Daphne and Ran, Scooby and Shaggy and each go a direction they were told to go, even if Shaggy and Scooby didn't want to go on their own on a murderer hunt.
|With Fred and Velma|
They tried to ask some old enough people about the Wild Animal, in English, since neither of them talk Latvian and Velma didn't even want to think about Fred trying to talk in Latvian with no real skills from a dictionary book.
"Is that all you know about him?" Velma asked some really old woman that couldn't walk on her own.
"That is all." She replied in a raspy voice and went to do whatever she was doing before.
"Guess we're back to square one." Fred sighed.
"No wonder, the 70's were in the Soviet times, people here mostly want to forget them. Including the Wild Animal cases." Velma tells him.
"Let's hope the others were luckier." Fred says and they go to their meeting spot.
|With Shinichi and Karin|
"That's all he knows." Karin tells Shinichi, who writes the things down: "Wolf howl; long fangs and claws, but looks about as tall as 2 meters."
"This isn't going anywhere. The best way to find something would be getting our hands on those old files, but I don't think they kept any of those in any police station, even as archives." Karin shook's her head.
"Or maybe they did," Karin looks at the tantei, "Even if times passed and Latvia became independent, they couldn't suddenly end their investigations that were only starting."
"Which means, they should have the files, but if not the in the archives, then…" Karin gets his point.
"A place like the archives, only away from peoples eyes. They keep the files, but they hid them all." Shinichi takes a guess.
"The basements under evidence item rooms. My dad told me there is always an extra room under that room, in case there are too much things in there." Karin remembers.
"If they wanted to throw it away, but still had to keep the files in case something like this happened again, they should be there." Shinichi thinks.
"Let's go." The both rush towards the biggest police station in Cesis.
|With Scooby and Shaggy|
"Pass me some ketchup, Scooby." Shaggy extends his hand for the ketchup.
"Rere ryou ro." Scooby hands the ketchup. Currently they were in the Lido restaurant, having a meal, which consists of several plates of fries, pork chops, sandwiches, few cold drinks and a lot of deserts.
"You 2 are hungry, aren't you?" The young, blond haired waitress, dressed in a traditional Latvian clothes as it is the restaurants work clothes for the waitresses, asked.
"Yes/Res ma'am/ra'am." They both answer.
"And may I tell you this is one of the few tastiest fries I have eaten." Shaggy compliments. She just giggles: "'Well, you have to thank our chef. He is a master at making it." She then points at the big guy dressed in white chef clothes, making the fries right behind the counter from which the people take their food.
"So, this is, like, freshly made right on spot and given straight, like, from the pan?" Shaggy asks.
"Right you are. Do you want some drinks?" She asks and they order few coca-colas to lower the heat in their mouths from those chicken shashliks. That's what happens if you put to much hot spicy ketchup on them.
"Raggy, rook." Scooby points at the screen that was now lowering down.
"What will they do with that screen miss…A-ina?" Shaggy read her name tag.
"You pronounced it wrong, it's Ai-na. Aina." The waitress, now called Aina, corrects him, "They are getting the screen ready, since a lot of parents bring their kids here for dinner and for them to have some fun, so we put on some old classic cartoons." The screen turns on and the cartoon of Tom and Jerry kids start up. Seeing a cat, Scooby did a dog growl.
"Shh! Scooby! No, that's only a cartoon. A fake!" Shaggy tries to hold him down. The little Tom throws 2 strawberry pie at both of them and laughs at them, before going of to catch little Jerry.
"He always does that. Don't worry." Aina hands them few towels to wipe their faces off. Shaggy finds a note in his towel:
If you ever want to see the city in the night, call me.
Aina.
And her number was under the note.
"What do you think it means, Scooby?" Shaggy asks his best friend.
"Ri ron't rnow." Scooby shrugs and gets whacked with another pie. This time it was blueberry.
"Hahaha!" Little Tom laughed at Scooby, who growled in response.
|With Daphne and Ran|
"Thank you." Ran nodded to this old man and went back to Daphne.
"Well?" The red head asked.
"He already told what we know." Ran shook her head. When she looked up she saw the big clock ready to chime 10.
"It's that late? We should meet the others, maybe they found something!" Ran starts pulling Daphne to the meeting place.
"Wait! I can't run in these shoes!" Daphne tries to slow her down.
|With Shinichi and Karin|
When Karin lied to the cops about some bar fight, which they fell for, they quickly entered the basements to find old boxes with CCCP on them.
"Yep these are the boxes from Soviet times." Karin looks over them fro the years, till finds the right box: 65 – 75
For few minutes they managed to find the right files, well Karin did anyway, and they took off before the cops came back.
|Central Park – 9:30|
With the help of an electronic translator, they were reading threw the files, trying to find something that can give a bit more of a clue about the Wild Animal.
"Everything is what we already know." Fred sighed, as he put down the file.
"You still can't believe these have something important." Daphne saw the 3 kids still looking threw the files, but Ran soon put it down also.
"When you look at this you will see what we are looking for." Shinichi shows them the pictures of the identical looking knives that Daphne found in the cave.
"Not only that, but when I looked threw the internet for anything matching these knives, it shows more old drawings about those knives from the 30's." Shinichi show them the pictures threw the Google Mobile Search.
"He's right." Fred notices that they are almost identical, the only difference being that those are drawn, but those are high quality drawings.
"Does that mean, he started killing in the 30's?" Daphne asked.
"That's impossible. If he was already a grown man in the 30's, he would be already dead. Not to mention, he killed more after 40 years and now again." Velma tells her.
"He has a weird pattern. Free Latvia – Soviet – Free Latvia." Karin names the periods.
"The differences are about 40 years. He would be more then 100 years old, if he was really born before the 30's." Ran thinks about it, "The only things that live long enough are…vampires!"
"Vampires?" Shaggy jumps in Scooby's arms/paws this time.
"Told you it was a bad idea to watch that Breaking Dawn movie when we went to the cinema." Shinichi looks at Karin, with annoyance.
"Well sorry, but Sherlock Holms: Shadow Games won't be on screen for few more weeks and it was top 1 in Top 10 most viewed movies." Karin sends him an annoyed look.
"C'mon, there is no such things as vampires. Or vampire human hybrids for that matter." Velma looks at the Twilight Saga fans.
"Well those legends had to appear from somewhere. If not from the real deal, then where?" Karin asks, leaving the others with nothing to say back.
"Before we branch off into another idiotic talk, how about we see where these knives got ordered from." Shinichi tells them.
"Like, how do you do that?" Shaggy got off of Scooby's hands/paws.
"I do a search on these knives on their maker…and….got it!" He shows them what he got:
Heinzer and Geinzer Knife Brothers. Making knives for you since 1890.
"Heinzer and Geinzer knives. These are special orders, but the handle is their own product. They manage to put their own symbols in those, so they could get more customers that way." Shinichi explains.
"Then he ordered a lot of knives." Fred looks at the company information, "It says here, that they went bankrupt in 1962."
"10 bodies in the 30's, about 20 in the 70's and now 3. He might go for the whole 30 this time." Velma counts the activity.
"We better figure out how he kills in 3 different decades 40 years apart." Karin looks around and they all hear the clock now chime 11.
"We were, like, an hour and 30 minutes here." Shaggy looks at his watch. Just to add to the creepy, the moonlight came out and the lake, in the middle of the park, made a clear reflection of it in its dark waters. The black skies, dark silver grey clouds and the chilly wind, made a very tense atmosphere. Suddenly, Scooby smelled something in the air. He sniffed around to figure out what it is.
"What is it Scooby?" Shaggy asks. Scooby sniffs for 1 minute, before pointing at something in fear: "Rook!" When they all turned their heads, they saw a big black form, with evil red eyes right across the lake. Seeing them it let out a bone chilling howl towards the moon.
"It's the Wild Animal!" The gang exclaims, Ran screams and hangs unto Shinichi, while he looked in shock at it and Karin stepped back from it. It snarled and leaped across the lake right at them.
"Run!" Fred yells and they all start running for their lives.
"HELP!" Shaggy screamed, as he barely ducked a razor sharp claw. Scooby hid under some bushes, but the creature sniffed him out. Scooby barely made it to get out of there, before he got turned into Swiss cheese.
"If we separate, maybe we can loose him!" Fred says and tries to take a left turn, but Shinichi stops him: "Are you mad? It will get us one by one, if it has to! We have to stick together and watch our backs." With that, they start running with everything they have left of strength, or it was fear making them run fast.
"AH! Let me go!" Daphne screams, as Wild Animal grabs her.
"Daphne!" Fred, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby exclaim.
"Darn it!" Shinichi curses.
"We have to save her!" Karin yells out.
"Let her go!" Ran gets all serious and runs towards the Wild Animal, ready to pound him. It tries to grab her too, but Ran hits so hard that it naturally pulls his hand back in pain. Then she delivers a jump kick to the head and a swift kick. Wild Animal tries to back away from her, but then Ran hits it with all her strength on the hand it's holding Daphne and it makes a sickening crack, while also letting Daphne go. It runs away, while holding its hand in pain.
"How did she do that?" Fred asked, bewildered.
"Ran is the captain of Teitan's Karate team. She is the best." Shinichi tells them, with a smirk.
"A friend in danger and we get Karate Ran." Karin announces.
"Are you alright, Daphne?" Ran asks, worriedly.
"She is also the only one who could go from an angry fighting master to an innocent girl in seconds." Shinichi adds, remembering those times.
"I'm fine." Daphne brushes off the dust.
"A new question has appeared for us: if that is the Wild Animal – what is it?" Velma asked. No one knew the answer to this. With this silence, the dark clouds covered the bright moon, making any hope to figure out what it is, disappear.
TBC
The TVMIML Note:
Hope you folks enjoyed this chapter. I worked hard on making this. I'm even past my normal deadline of updating. I hope this was worth it.
By the way, I got a cool place for me and the cast of the story to cool out or to enjoy themselves. We just call HQ. Let's go!
(In the HQ, which is a big 3 floored building, looking a bit like that Mystery Inc, you see in those live action Scooby Doo movies, but slightly different location – a wonderful forest around with almost no people to disturb the silence)
"Do you see the size of this closet?" Daphne happily shrieks.
"Look at the library!" Velma calls out.
"They have every single Sherlock Holms movie and book!" Shinichi happily exclaims.
"Shinichi!" Ran exclaims and tries to pry him away from all those books.
"This will take some time to get used to. Okay, first floor – living room, kitchen, main bathroom, gym; second floor – barrooms for them with personal bathrooms and third floor – art room." I say.
"Hey Musy!" (That's me: The Veronicas Music Is My Life. I thought I needed something short for you guys, so Musy) Fred calls out.
"What Fred?"
"Got a place for the Mystery Machine?"
"The garage is right behind the HQ." I point at the direction, "Till we all get sued to this, I can only hope I will be able to make the net chapter come soon."
"Then start working on it Musy!" Karin calls out.
"Don't rush me Kari!" I yell out.
From Karin Johansson: She can be so mean at times.
I didn't want to be mean! I'm just cranky! I do hope one day I will have some more reviews. Ayumi Kudou, you are amazing for reading my story. I wish you good luck and fortune.
~The Veronicas Music is My Life